Nvidia's N1X Apple Silicon rival is two years behind
Nvidia has stepped into the processor market with its RTX Spark, but at first glance, it's clearly behind Apple Silicon by a considerable margin.
Computex 2026 is underway, and Nvidia has formally stepped into the processor ring with its own chip. Nvidia calls the RTX Spark a "superchip" for Windows PCs that have massive AI performance.
This chip consists of an ARM-based Nvidia Grace CPU with 20 cores, as well as an Nvidia Blackwell RTX GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores. There's also fifth-generation Tensor cores, up to 128GB of unified memory, and a 600GB/s Nvidia NVLink-C2C interconnect providing high-bandwidth communications between the elements.
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Computex 2026 is underway, and Nvidia has formally stepped into the processor ring with its own chip. Nvidia calls the RTX Spark a "superchip" for Windows PCs that have massive AI performance.
This chip consists of an ARM-based Nvidia Grace CPU with 20 cores, as well as an Nvidia Blackwell RTX GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores. There's also fifth-generation Tensor cores, up to 128GB of unified memory, and a 600GB/s Nvidia NVLink-C2C interconnect providing high-bandwidth communications between the elements.
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Christopher Holloway is the founder and director of Progressive Robot, a UK-based technology company. A full-stack engineer with more than two decades of experience, he works across PHP development, ecommerce, Linux infrastructure, technical SEO and AI automation, and writes here on technology, AI, hardware and software.
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